Description: This 2.5 by 3.5-inch (6.35 by 8.89 cm) tintype shows Josephine Klippart and her mother, Mrs. Emeline Rahn Klippart, of Columbus. It dates from the 1870s. A tintype is a positive photograph made directly on an iron plate varnished with a thin sensitized film. Klippart (1848-1936) was a painter and illustrator who specialized in the scientific illustration of Ohio's fishes and birds. Her drawings appeared in publications of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, an organization for which her father John Hancock Klippart served as secretary. Klippart, who founded the Columbus Watercolor Society, left her teaching position at the Columbus Art School to take charge of the coloring of folio-sized lithographs for the book The Illustration of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio. The book was begun by Genevieve Jones, who dreamed of creating a multi-part book that illustrated the nests and eggs of Ohio birds as a complementary volume to J. J. Audubon's Birds of America. She began working on the book in 1879, but died later the same year. As a memorial to her daughter, Genevieve's mother Virginia Jones taught herself the lithographic technique and completed the illustrations for the volume. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1355_1160596_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Arts and Entertainment; Klippart, Josephine, 1848-1936
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Bookplate designed for Hubbard Avenue School (Columbus, Ohio) by Josephine Klippart (1848-1936). The rectangular form features a border of lilies and an image of a woman reading a book. On a scroll at the top is the name "Hubbard Avenue School." The inscription reads: "Use the book but let no one misuse it; the bee does not stain the lilies but only touches them." Designed by David Reibel, an important Columbus architect, Hubbard Avenue School was completed in 1896 and is located at 104 West Hubbard Avenue on the near north side of Columbus. Klippart (1848-1936) was the daughter of John Hancock Klippart and his wife, Emeline. Born in Osnaburg, Ohio, she grew up in Columbus and began to paint as a young girl. A specialist in the scientific illustration of Ohio's fishes and birds, Klippart assisted Virginia Jones with the coloring of the nests for "Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio" after Genevieve Jones died. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05660
Subjects: Bookplates; Klippart, Josephine, 1848-1936; Schools--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Women artists--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)